Finger at outsiders in Jadavpur University web hack case in Kolkata

Three months after Jadavpur University registered an FIR in connection with an alleged case of hacking of its website, the cyber cell of detective department has found prima facie evidence of involvement of “outsiders” in the incident even as a few present engineering faculty students have been “kept under watch”.

| TNN | Updated: Dec 31, 2014, 02:47 IST

KOLKATA: Three months after Jadavpur University registered an FIR in connection with an alleged case of hacking of its website, the cyber cell of detective department has found prima facie evidence of involvement of “outsiders” in the incident even as a few present engineering faculty students have been “kept under watch”.
Sources in Lalbazar said that they had traced the server (located outside India) through which the website was hosted and had received feedbacks from its host. Officers investigating the case said that they were planning to write to higher authorities so that they could collect more details about the alleged case of hacking. However, Lalbazar officers said that the probe was still at a preliminary stage and arrests, as of now, did not figure in their plans.

“We have merely established the administration’s claims that indeed there was a hacking,” said an officer investigating the case.

The investigation was started after a post on the Jadavpur vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti’s page during the Hok Kolorob protests in September led many students to believe that the VC was finally sending out an apology for his deeds. “I am sorry” was the message posted on the website on Chakrabarti’s page.

Hours later, the Jadavpur University administration clarified that the VC — at the centre of the raging controversy with Jadavpur University students demanding the his resignation over an alleged molestation case and police excess on campus — had not given out any apology.

Instead, the authorities claimed that the university’s official page was “hacked” and the words were “inserted”.

University registrar Pradip Kumar Ghosh had then filed the FIR.Sources said that an investigation has shown that the university website had some basic security lapses.

Around 3 lakh hacks have taken place on various government websites in the country in the past one year. As many as 42 million people have been affected by cyber crimes in the city while more than Rs 24,000 crore was at stake.

“In such a scenario, it is important that the university authorities, and all government agencies for the matter, ensure that all the latest security parameters regarding their websites are in place,” said an official of the cyber crime section of Lalbazar.

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